Edvard Isak Hambro (22 August 1911 – 1 February 1977) was a Norwegian legal scholar, diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party.

He finished his secondary education in 1929, enrolled in law studies at the Royal Frederick University and graduated with the cand.jur.

[3] In 1936 he obtained a docteur ès sciences politiques degree from Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies[4] with the thesis L'Éxécution des sentences internationales.

During the subsequent fighting Hambro was a liaison officer for British forces in Western Norway, but later in the same year he fled via London to the United States.

[1] He was a guest scholar at the Northwestern University from 1941, and secretary-general in Norse Federation and editor of their magazine Nordmanns-Forbundets Tidsskrift from 1941 to 1943.

He then returned to London to work in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs-in-exile until the war's end.

He was a Norwegian delegate to the San Francisco Conference in 1945, and led the United Nations judicial office until 1946.

[6] After his tenure as permanent representative ended, he continued serving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was the Norwegian ambassador in Geneva, to EFTA and various UN organizations.

[1] Hambro was also a board member of the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture and the Nansen Foundation, and from 1960 to 1966 vice president of the Norwegian Red Cross.